I am Brian Graff and I am running for Mayor of Toronto in 2018

This website is temporary and is a work in progress. Much of the content is from its previous uses, so please be patient as I update it to reflect my ideas for the City of Toronto and otherwise put together my campaign platform and publish it here.

You might be interested in this Toronto Star coverage regarding Ward boundaries when I appeared before the Executive Committee - HERE 

I also had a Letter to the Editor of The Star about the race for Mayor and the need for reform HERE
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Brian Graff 's agenda for toronto
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Here is a summary of MY PRAGMATIC, COMMON SENSE AGENDA, we need  the vision and good political judgment we have been lacking for too many years:

 1. STOP the Scarborough Subway Boondoggle ($4 Billion or more) and create a new and more cost-effective transit plan

 2. TERMINATE the King St. Transit Pilot Project (Restore parking but keep left turn prohibitions)

 3. END the Privatization of the Waterfront (Parks and not condos or questionable deals - why develop land for condos then spend billion on a deck of the railway)

 4. RESTRUCTURE the Megacity (because Mike Harris's 1997 structure doesn't work)

 5. REPLACE the 2002 Official Plan - the Planning Process and Rules are a mess and the planners do not listen to residents. We need to put citizens ahead of developers.

 6. FIRE bureaucrats who do not respect citizens, starting with the Planning Department "experts" who impose their own ideology on planning decisions instead of merely providing information to Council.

 7. REFORM our political system to EMPOWER citizens - ranked ballot, term limits and other structural democratic changes

 8. SOLVE our underlying problems caused by rapid population growth in the GTA - we cannot keep up so we have to slow down population growth by changing federal and provincial policies

 9. HELP citizens by making Toronto a more prosperous, equal and fair city - we have too much poverty and unemployment and housing is not affordable

10. FIX our roads and infrastructure (Stop raiding reserve funds and fix potholes) municipal government needs to focus on providing services.

11. BE REALISTIC AND FLEXIBLE instead of imposing imposing rigid quotas (management by numbers) such as with the quota to increase trees by 50% (40% of the city to be covered by trees) and rules which force trees on homeowners against their will - put quality over quantity.

It's "the economy, Stupid!"
​And  "Change vs. More of the same"

Well known slogans based on a sign in James Carville's office, circa 1992
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